Compare and Contrast: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are two poets who contributed great works of art to American society. Although they were poets from the same time period, they were extremely different from each other. They had a few similarities, but they were vastly different people. Emily Dickinson was more of a dark, serious person, whereas Walt Whitman was more at ease with himself, and seemed comfortable in his own skin. In the following paragraphs, I am going to compare and contrast the poems I Hear America Singing, by Walt Whitman, and Success is counted sweetest, by Emily Dickinson. First of all, in Success is counted sweetest, Emily Dickinson talks about different feelings of success. In the first stanza, Dickinson says that to really appreciate success, you have to really want i
The imagery she uses is that of a battlefield, lonely, and desolate. However, comparable with Whitman's poem, she talks about the work to achieve something. This poem is about success and having pride in knowing the hard work you put in to something to gain achievement. Either gift, great or small, are important to our world in many ways. Dickinson's soldier contributes to the country, through his loss of life. Although the many differences, there some similarities to link them together. Now, I am going to compare and contrast the Success is counted sweetest, and I Hear America Singing. Walt Whitman says at the end "singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs. One can imagine the scene, a worker sawing, or a girl working. She goes on to say that with giving the ultimate gift, which is a soldier dying in a battle, that he now knows the clear meaning of success. To conclude, there are many differences in Walt Whitman's poem I Hear America Singing, and Emily Dickinson's Success is counted sweetest. There was little joy in her poem, despite the success of victory. In Whitman's it is the trades-people's end product. In Walt Whitman's poem, I Hear America Singing, he is more joyful and descriptive.
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